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Class Foam::functionObjects::rigidBodySectionalForceGraph Description This function calculates the fluid and acceleration forces and moments at a series of section-planes through a given rigid body. It writes the result into a graph which can be used to construct (potentially just a part of) a shear force and bending moment diagram. Points in the graph are graded to approximately match the resolution of the mesh. The cut-planes are defined as normal to an axis in the local coordinate system of the rigid body, and the line of the graph extends along the axis from an origin defined in the same local coordinate system. Forces and moments are calculated on the side of the plane on which coordinates have a positive axis-component. Note that this function does not take into account the effect of joints or restraints attached to the body, so if these are applied then the shear force and bending moment diagrams generated will be somewhat incomplete. Note that ramping, acceleration relaxation, and solution tolerance can also result in components of the forces and moments to be missing from the output. Example of function object specification: \verbatim rigidBodySectionalForceGraph { type rigidBodySectionalForceGraph; libs ("librigidBodyForces.so"); body beam; patches (beam); axis x; nPoints 101; setFormat raw; writeControl writeTime; } \endverbatim Usage \table Property | Description | Required | Default value type | Type name: rigidBodySectionalForceGraph | yes | body | The name of the rigid body | yes | patches | Patches included in the forces calculation | yes | axis | Local axis normal to the section planes | yes | origin | Local origin of the plot | no | body centroid nPoints | Number of points in the plot | yes | setFormat | Graph output format | yes | p | Pressure field name | no | p U | Velocity field name | no | U rho | Density field name | no | rho phase | Phase name for phase-fraction | no | rhoRef | Reference density | if incompressible | pRef | Reference pressure | no | 0 \endtable SourceFiles rigidBodySectionalForceGraph.C \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ #ifndef rigidBodySectionalForceGraph_functionObject_H #define rigidBodySectionalForceGraph_functionObject_H #include "rigidBodySectionalForcesBase.H" // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // namespace Foam { namespace functionObjects { /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\ Class rigidBodySectionalForceGraph Declaration \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ class rigidBodySectionalForceGraph : public rigidBodySectionalForcesBase { // Private Data //- The distances from the origin to the section planes mutable autoPtr distancesPtr_; //- The number of points in the plot label nPoints_; //- File writer autoPtr formatter_; //- Number of optimisation iterations. Default is 2. label nOptimiseIter_; // Private Member Functions //- Clear the cached weights virtual void clear(); //- Return the distances from the origin to the section planes virtual tmp distances() const; public: //- Runtime type information TypeName("rigidBodySectionalForceGraph"); // Constructors //- Construct from Time and dictionary rigidBodySectionalForceGraph ( const word& name, const Time& runTime, const dictionary& dict ); //- Disallow default bitwise copy construction rigidBodySectionalForceGraph ( const rigidBodySectionalForceGraph& ) = delete; //- Destructor virtual ~rigidBodySectionalForceGraph(); // Member Functions //- Read the rigidBodySectionalForceGraph data virtual bool read(const dictionary&); //- Write the rigidBodySectionalForceGraph virtual bool write(); // Member Operators //- Disallow default bitwise assignment void operator=(const rigidBodySectionalForceGraph&) = delete; }; // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // } // End namespace functionObjects } // End namespace Foam // * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * // #endif // ************************************************************************* //